OTAKI THEATRE.
"THE JACE.-KNITE MAN." AND "THE TEAMING DISK." TO-NIGHT. The Otaki theatre will offer to-nigh* King Vidor'n latent photoplay "ThCj Jack-Knife Man," aa unusually novl Firht National Attraction. The *torf of the picture chronicles the doings of a strange colony along th«" banks of Ki«r. The centra! character is-oW Peter, a strange ebap who ekes out a living whittling and tovs from w>ft pine with-bw jackknife. " Into hi* life comes Baddy, * poor waif, whom Peter fathers and mothers at the name time. Eventually hi, family b increased by Booge, « ringing tramp. Their '.-Sort, to take care of the orphan lad and keep ta« out of the band* of a society for finning home- for orphan ehfldren, formates a utory that U fall of qnaint httrror ana pathcr •'The Flaming Ui=k" created tee gr.iare%t enthusiasm -her. the opening episode wa* ehown laet Weefc The speed of the action is-terrinc, and thrill I follows thrill. These are Bensationt at eveiy turn, and the spectator is caught napping -with new developments. Dot f miss to-night'« chapter. On Friday Eustin I'arnum will ft P" pear in "The Primal Lair."
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Otaki Mail, 22 March 1922, Page 2
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